Name

SMAR Gene

Spinal muscular atrophy, chronic distal, autosomal recessive

SMAL Gene

spinal muscular atrophy, congenital nonprogressive, of lower limbs

SMAJ Gene

Spinal muscular atrophy, Jokela type

SPPM Gene

scapuloperoneal syndrome, myopathic type

LOC101060022 Gene

nascent polypeptide-associated complex subunit alpha, muscle-specific form-like

LOC101928892 Gene

nascent polypeptide-associated complex subunit alpha, muscle-specific form-like

LOC100422315 Gene

poly(A) binding protein, cytoplasmic 4 (inducible form) pseudogene

LOC105379556 Gene

nascent polypeptide-associated complex subunit alpha, muscle-specific form-like

PABPC4 Gene

poly(A) binding protein, cytoplasmic 4 (inducible form)

Poly(A)-binding proteins (PABPs) bind to the poly(A) tail present at the 3-prime ends of most eukaryotic mRNAs. PABPC4 or IPABP (inducible PABP) was isolated as an activation-induced T-cell mRNA encoding a protein. Activation of T cells increased PABPC4 mRNA levels in T cells approximately 5-fold. PABPC4 contains 4 RNA-binding domains and proline-rich C terminus. PABPC4 is localized primarily to the cytoplasm. It is suggested that PABPC4 might be necessary for regulation of stability of labile mRNA species in activated T cells. PABPC4 was also identified as an antigen, APP1 (activated-platelet protein-1), expressed on thrombin-activated rabbit platelets. PABPC4 may also be involved in the regulation of protein translation in platelets and megakaryocytes or may participate in the binding or stabilization of polyadenylates in platelet dense granules. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. This protein has also been found to interact with coronavirus nucleocapsid proteins and is thought to inhibit coronavirus replication. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2021]

LOC100422325 Gene

poly(A) binding protein, cytoplasmic 4 (inducible form) pseudogene

LOC101928722 Gene

nascent polypeptide-associated complex subunit alpha, muscle-specific form-like

MDRV Gene

muscular dystrophy, with rimmed vacuoles

MLIP Gene

muscular LMNA-interacting protein

Predicted to enable lamin binding activity and transcription corepressor activity. Predicted to be involved in negative regulation of cardiac muscle hypertrophy in response to stress; negative regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II; and positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Predicted to be located in PML body; nuclear envelope; and sarcolemma. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Mar 2025]

LGMD1H Gene

limb girdle muscular dystrophy 1H (autosomal dominant)

LGMD1G Gene

limb girdle muscular dystrophy 1G (autosomal dominant)

MDC1B Gene

Muscular dystrophy, congenital, 1B

FSHMD1A Gene

facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1A

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a common hereditary disease of muscle. Patients with FSHD have a chromosomal rearrangement within the subtelomeric region of chromosome 4 (4q35). This region is composed mainly of a polymorphic repeat structure consisting of 3.3 kb repeat units, designated D4Z4. The number of repeat units varies from 10 to more than 100 in the population, however, in FSHD patients only 1-10 repeat units is observed because of a deletion of an integral number of these units. FSHD is caused by an epigenetic mechanism involving the contraction of a subtelomeric macrosatellite repeat, which results in marked hypomethylation of the contracted D4Z4 allele. It is likely not the structure, but the deregulation of transcription of one or more genes as a result of repeat-contraction-mediated chromatin alterations, that causes FSHD. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2011]

FSHMD1B Gene

facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1B

SCA18 Gene

spinocerebellar ataxia 18 (sensory with neurogenic muscular atrophy)

MDCMP Gene

muscular dystrophy, congenital, merosin-positive